Dead of Night (Cavalcanti/Hamer/Dearden/Crichton, 1945): Castle Cinema, 6.45pm
This is a 16mm presentation from the great Cine-Real team and is also screened on October 25th. You can find the full details here.Time Out review:
Nearly 60 years on, Ealing's compendium of
spooky tales remains scary as hell. The best of the five stories,
which we see enacted as they're related in turn by guests at a country
house, are Alberto Cavalcanti's 'The Ventriloquist's Dummy', with Michael Redgrave
possessed by his deceptively lifeless little partner, and Hamer's 'The
Haunted Mirror', with the splendid Googie Withers a reluctant participant as
history repeats itself; least frightening, but amusing, are Basil Radford and
Naunton Wayne as typically obsessive sporting coves in Crichton's 'Golfing
Story'. Best of all, however, is the overall narrative arc, with the
framing story finally taking a headlong rush into a nightmarish realm
almost surreal in its weird clarity and familiarity.
Geoff Andrew
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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